Genus Okenia Menke, 1830

Museums

Regional Maps

• Okenia Menke, K.T. 1830. Synopsis methodica molluscorum generum omnium et specierum earum, quae in Museo Menkeano adservantur etc. 169 pp. [10].

  Type species:

   Idalia elegans Leuckart, 1828 by original designation.

Introduction

According to Paz-Sedano (2021), Okenia rhinorma Rudman, 2007 has been reported 'from Victoria and Queensland, Australia (Cobb 2009; Chuk 2010)'; howeve,r Paz-Sedano's (2021) record was not supported by material examined, and the latter records cited are published in the Australian Museum's sea slug forum are based, presumably, only on photographs. Therefore, the species was not added to the list of the Australian fauna.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Paz-Sedano, S., Wilson, NG., Carmona, L., Gosliner, T.M., Pola, M. 2021. An ocean yet to be discovered: increasing systematic knowledge of Indo-Pacific Okenia Menke, 1830 (Nudibranchia : Goniodorididae). Invertebrate Systematics 35: 797-825

History of changes